Re: Setting up Nunit in external tools in VS2005

Hi David, 

> Apologies if this has been covered before, but I couldn't 
> find it in the mailing list archives or with Google.
> 
> I have set Nunit (2.4.7) up in the VS2005 (pro, sp1) external 
> tools menu using the full path to nunit.exe, "$(TargetPath)" 
> and "$(TargetDir)", as described in the docs. However, when I 
> run it on my unit test project (a class library DLL) I get an 
> "Assembly not loaded" exception for "nunit.framework". If I 
> look at the project configuration in Nunit then the project 
> path seems to have the intermediate directory 
> ("...\obj\Release\..." instead of "...\bin\Release\...").

VS2005 changed the meaning of TargetPath, etc. from the bin
to the obj directories. It's annoying.

When you say "docs" do you mean the NUnit docs? I'd like to
change anything that is misleading there.

> The way I got around it was to load the csproj file from the 
> command line using "$(ProjectDir)$(ProjectFileName)" for the 
> arguments.

Good workaround.
 
> My questions are these:
> 
> 1) Has anyone else had the same experience with target path 
> being wrong?

Yup. Most everyone who switches from VS2003 to VS2005. 

> Is this a VS2005 bug or could I be doing something wrong to 
> launch Nunit?

The VS folks think it's a feature. :-)
 
> 2) Are there any drawbacks to using the csproj rather than 
> the compiled assembly? I assume I will need to include all my 
> unit tests in this project.

No disadavantages, but you need to change the name of any test
config file from something.dll.config to something.config and
put it in the same directory as the csproj file.

You can still have multiple test assemblies if you like. Either
run each separately or create a .nunit project file that includes
all of them. The same config file change applies.

Charlie

> Thanks.
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